Improved yarn-washing machine



E,.HAEFPELY. YARN WASHING MACHINE.

I I Patented Apr. 26; 1870. 1w

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UNITED STATES PATENT 'OFFICE.

EDWARD HAEFFELY, OF LOWELL. MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVED YA RNPWASHING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, EDWARD HAEFFELY, a resident of Lowell, of the countyof Middlesex and State of Massachusetts, but a citizen orsuhject ofFrance, have invented a new and useful Mechanism for Washing Yarn in theSkeiu, it being also useful in the operations of either bleaching ordyeing of such yarn; and I do hereby declare the invention to be fully.described in thefollowing specification, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, making part thereof.

Of such drawings, Figure 1 denotes atop view, Figs. 2 and 3 aretransverse sections, and Fig. 4 a longitudinal section, of a yarn orskein washer containing such invention.

. M In such drawings,Adenotes a vat or cistern for holding water orother proper liquid. Two spindles or shafts, B 0, arranged horizontallyand parallel at the upper part of such cistern and supported'infourboxes, a a b b, serve to support and make part of what I term the.skein-carrier's D D. Each of the said ourriers, as represented in thedrawings, further consists of two circular heads, a c, and two bars 'orrods, (1 d, the latter being arranged parallel to each other and onopposite sides of their shal'tan d with respect to the heads in manneras exhibited in the drawings.

Each of the shafts at one end is supported by one of two movable centersor pivots, E E, which are pointed screws, to enter pivot-recesses in theshaft, and are screwed through two'boxes, F F, fixed on one end of thecistern.

. -At their opposite ends the two carrier-shafts B C have fixed to themtwo toothed pinions or gears, e e, which, when the shafts are in op;oration, engage with and are revolved by a larger gear, f, fixed on adriving-shaft, g, that is arranged between the shafts B O and is dulysupported in proper boxes. A pulley, h, or a crank fixed ou the shaft g,serves to enable such to be put in revolution.

- The boxes b b of one of the shafts are supported by a lifter-frame orfurcated lever H, which at the extremities of its opposite parts i orprongs, i i, is hinged to the cistern or vat close to the driving-shaft.0n setting back into contact with it the 'two will be in situations toreceive the skein of yarn, which may next be applied to them by passingthe skcins over those heads of the carriers which'are next to thepivots, the same being so as'to cause each of the skeins to encompassthebars of the two carricrs,'in manner as represented at S in thedrawings. Alter the carriers may have been charged with a sufficientnumber of the skeins S the lifter should be depressed, so as to causethe skeins to be extended'on the two carriers,

which to operate to good advantage should have their bars in onehorizontal plane at starting. By revolving the drivingshaft bothcarriers simultaneously will be put in rotation in the same direction,and should the val; or cistern be suitably supplied with water or acleansiug'liquid the skeins will be dipped into and drawn "out of theliquid and run through it in manner to cause them to be effectivelycleansed by it. After the skeins may have been sufliciently cleansed thelifter should be raised, so as to bring its carrier nearer its fellow,in order that the skeins may be removed from the carriers.

The machine is specially designed for the washing of ske-ins of yarnafter being colored or dyed and for the purposeot divesting them ofloose or surplus coloring-matters. Heretofore it has been customary toaccomplish this by manual labor or by the common forms of washing anarticle by hand and with soap and water.

The mechanism for revolving the carriers as or in manner as describedconsists of the driving-shalt, its pulley, and the three gears appliedto such shaft, and the two carriershafts.

My machine has proved in practice a very successful automatic apparatusfor the purpose for which it is designed.

I claim- 1. The combination and arrangement of the two rotary carriers D.D and mechanism for revolving them, as described, with a vat or cistern, A, or its equivalent.

2. The combination and arrangement of the movable pivots E E with thetwo carriers and mechanism for revolving them, as described, suchcarriers being combined with or for application to a vat or cistern orits equivalent.

3. The arrangement and combination of the lifter H with the carriers D Dand mechanism anism for revolvihg the two carriers so as to forrevolving them, as described. cause them to operate substantially inmanner j 4. The arrangement and combination of the when used for eitherofthe purposes, as heremovable pivots E E, the pair of carriers D D,inbefore mentioned.

the lifter H, and mechanism for revolving the carriers, as described.-

5. The combination and arrangement of the Witnesses: tub or cistern A,the movable pivots E E, the J.W. REED, pair of carriers D D, the lifterH, and mech- D. HALL RICE.

ED. HAEFFELY.

